New fellow (land not cultivated for continuous
four harvests though it was cultivated earlier.

Banjar Kadim

Old fallow (If continued to be uncultivated
for next four harvests)

Barani

Dependent on rainfall

Bigha

A measure of area (It is different in
different areas)

Biswa

One twentieth of a bigha

Biswansi

One twentieth of a biswa

Chahi

Irrigated from well

Chahi Nahri

Irrigated partly from a well and partly
from canal.

Chari

A kind of millet (g.v.) grown for fodder

Chaukidar

Village Watchman

Chkota

Lump grain rent or rent consisting of
a foxed amount of grain in the rabi and kharif.

Dholi

Death bed gift or a small plot of land
to a Brahmin

Gair-Mumkin

Barren

Girdawar

Kanungo or Supervisor of Patwaris

Girdawari

Harvest Inspection

Gosha

Corner

Jawar

A kind of millet (Sorghum Val gave)

Kalar

Barren Land (Sour Clay)

Kanal

A measure of area

Kanungo

Supervisor of Patwaris

Karam

Unit of Length

Kharaba

Portion of crop which has failed to come.

Kharif

Autumn harvest

Khasra

List of fields, field register

Khasra Girdawari

Harvest Inspection Register

Khata

Holding of tenant

Khatauni

Holding slips prepared at re-measurement

Khewat

A list of Owner’s holding

Khewat/Khatauni

A combined Khewat & Khatauni

Khud Kashat

Cultivated by the owner himself

Killabandi

Rectangular measurement

Lamaberdar

Village Headman

Latha Girdawari

Cloth copy of the Patwari’s Map

Marla

Measuring of Area

Masri

A small pulse

Mauza

Village

Min

Portion / Part

Misal Haqiyat

Record-of-Right

Musavi

Mapping Sheet

Nahri

Irrigated from canal

Naib-Tehsildar

The Deputy or Assistant of Tehsildar

Parat Patwar

Patwari copy of the new settlement record

Parat Sarkar

Government Copy of the new settlement
record

Patwari

A Village Accountant or Registrar

Rabi

Spring Harvest

Sabik

Former

Sub-Division

A sub division of a district

Sub-Divisional Magistrate

In-charge of a tehsildar

Taccavi

Loan granted by a Government to landowner
for agriculture purposes.

Tehsildar

In-charge of a tehsil

Waris

Successor

Wasil Baqi Nawis

Revenue Accountant in the Tehsil

Wattar

Diagonal Line

Zamindar

Landowner

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